And pathways 

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Let's walk a little

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Lists
Words
In
A
Line
Lives
On a track
Things
To do
To not
Forget
Or at least
To put
Our minds
Into some
Kind of
System
Or routine
Though
For what
I'm never
Quite
Sure
Regulation
Sense
To stop
Us falling
Off
This planet

We love
Our lists
Maybe
They help
Us
Make sense
Of
This
Nonsense
Maybe
They provide
Control
Because
It seems
Above
All else
That's ...

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It came
From nowhere
A plastic bag
Tossed
Between the cars
Pirouetting
Cartwheeling
Turning
And tumbling
Until
It landed in front
Of me
And at the same
Moment
As I caught a glimpse
I felt this
Bag
With my tires
And it wasn't
A bag
At all
And though I still
Hoped
It was a rag doll
Or a broken
Discarded
Umbrella
It wasn't that
Either
And through
My rear view mirror
I f...

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They took

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And for you

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And fate
usually has her way
Working out the
Sums of life
On her crystal web abacus
Spinning futures
In ways
That to
The human eye
Appear unfathomable
Illogical
Non-sensical
But we can't see
Into the far distance
In the way that
She can
A tremor
Here
A flicker there
And everything turns
Inside out
Or upside down
Or that's how
It appears
To us
mere mortals
But the spiders
...

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And you will

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Sometimes 

There are doors

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I love waiting
In line
Whilst the one person
Serving
Peers over
Her glasses
I'm not sure
What it is
She's expecting to see
But a long line
Of impatient people
Doesn't make her move
Any quicker
And the person
At the front of the queue
Is clearly
Cut out of the
Same mould
All the time
In the world
No life to lead
Nothing better to do
Than answer
And ask
Inane question
After ...

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They looked
Under the floor
Searched the space
Behind the cupboard
And though
They found
Traces of snow
And a sprinkling of
Ash
There was little
In the way
Of what one
Might call
A clue
Yet disappear
He did
And vanishing
He had done
From a place
Where windows
Were for show
And behind doors
Was nothing
But brick walls
There was no
Tunnel of escape
No plan
Or plottings
Of...

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There was a hole

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And the joke

Really 

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You know

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What the hell
Happened here
It would think
If it was capable
Of thought
As it wandered
Around in circles
Its head
Nodding in step
To its feet
Which was the way
It had always
Been
But something was different
And not just
The pain
In its head
And the blood
On its feathers
It had come
Out of nowhere
The vicious attack
For apparently no
Reason
Or none that it
Could remember
T...

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~~Accept
The shape of
This world
Is different
To everyone
With eyes
Who can
See
With their
Mind
It is shaped
By their experience
Positive and negative
It twists
Everyday
A mirage
Of information
Uploaded
Inputted
Rightly and wrongly
Translated
Sculpted
By an amateur
Hand
Shaking
With the pressure
Of everyday
Living
This is not
A failing
This is no
Malfunction
This is...

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With our rings
Of gold 
And our hearts
Of silver
And our lead boots
Waiting
To trudge 
Out to sea 
We pour through
The gaps
Spill through 
The fissures
Spitting and
Snarling
And bleeding
We glare 
At the pirates
As we shuffle
Forwards
To collect 
Our pieces of 
Eight 
And we punch 
Our drunkeness 
Into the faulty 
Machine 
Mechanically logging in 
To the clockwork
We al...

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Sometimes
I get to 
Thinking about
Ordinary silence
The space 
In between
When the black
Of your mind
Colours 
The places
Underneath words
When the pictures
And thoughts
Line up 
And the hum
Of the sound
That lies
Underneath
Drips through 
Your consciousness
Painting your thoughts
Into ideas
Until the circus
Inside your head
Spins and whirls
And the shadows
Become people
...

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You want to know
About the spit
And the sawdust
Shit
You haven't
Even seen
The blood
On the floor
The stain
In your hands
You feel
Your heart 
Beating
And you blame
Everybody
Else
This rattle
Isn't a vibration
Of the earth
It starts
Deep within
It builds
Until
It comes from
A place
You think 
You don't know
And then
It explodes
And you don't  
Realise
You have
A gun
...

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Sometimes
I open
My mouth
And people
Look at me
Goggle eyed
Or bored
And they
Yawn
Or say
You're deep
You know
And I'm not
Deep
I'm not anything
I'm just tired
This thing
Isn't so difficult
It is
The way it is
And if i don't
Spend
A bit of my
Time
Looking at it
Thinking about it
Well
I guess
I might as well
Not bother
And then
I might as well
Walk
With the zombies
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They walk
With their eyes
Climbing the fences
Whilst staring 
At the 
Green green grass
Below
So close
And yet so utterly
Out of reach 
The spectre
Of their once-wings
Ruffle
Below their over starched
Shirts
And their fingers
Twitch 
With the ancient memory
Of freedom
They bend 
At the knees
And waist 
Like all good servants
And hiss and curse
Under their breath
But their ...

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Sometimes 
I feel 
Like there
Are things
I'm supposed
To do
Places I should
See
People
I should know
But 
You know
I feel
Like I'm trapped
In this cabin
Under the sea
Above the clouds
And though
There are no
Bars
I rattle them
Anyway
Along with 
My bones
My sanity
My madness
And my
Sadness
And I see the
Big wheels turning
And I see
The spaces
Where the magic
Should...

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And sometimes
It's a shame
When you don't
Understand
The heart
Of understanding
When the pistons
Fire
But they miss
When they 
Bump and grind
But they're
Left 
To their own
Tune
And though
It's all about timing
Sometimes
It's about
Misfiring
And however much
Oil and dirt
However many
Mechanics 
You throw 
At the problem
This machine
Is different
And to caress 
And touc...

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I know 
How this world
Works
When I look
Through the
Fog
And the madness
I can see
The nuts 
And the bolts
And the loose 
Screws
Spiralling
Under the table
Nesting
In the dust
After all
That's where
We came from
That's what we
Are
And trying to fight
The invisible forces
Is ridiculous
Because 
They're not 
Really there
They're simply 
A product
Of a man made
Stamp
Wh...

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Tiny eyes
Stare
Through magnified
Lenses
Blinking at a world
Hidden inside 
A fragile and 
Unknown  mind
Seeing nothing
That is real
Obsessed 
By ideas of other
People's lives 
And dreams and stories
Made from 
Candy floss
Blown by an 
Internal storm
Carrying them away
Some place
Where they can't 
See 
Where they can't stand
A spinning carousel
Fed by 
A haunted 
Feverous...

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I'm a step 
Out of time
me
Part spaceman
Part robot
Practically futuristic
Leaping from
This dusty world
That is past 
Before the future 
Has blinked
Floating through
This bubble life
Oblivious to all
That surrounds
After all
Once we learn to fly
We don't have to worry 
About the rats
Below
Whether they have
Tails or not
As long as they 
Don't have wings
They can't touch us
...

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Part the third of my experiment

please watch

http://youtu.be/BEefmiQbOUM

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMmXXjBAp_I

(Part 2 of the animated show i'm hoping to perform.  Please watch the clip- any comments are very much appreciated)

And the thing

About clowns

And their mystery within

All the like

And dislike

And the fear

And delight

The disguise and deception

The obsession and performance

Of the circus

That is people

When the...

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There has to be
So much more
Not this place 
Full of squalor
Not this hole
Of steaming piss
And alcohol
And long lost friends
From here 
There
And everywhere
And nowhere
I'm so tired
Of dirty holes
And laughter
Born of boredom
Of people
Barking
Everything
And nothing
Find me a ditch
Away from it all
Away from the dirt
And the drudge
Dredge my soul
I found my limits
And un...

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She cut people
From the cloth
And dressed them
In paper
Scribbling expressions
Of life
In wild crayon
Across their skin
She stitched tightly- lipped
Mouths
So they would be careful
Of what they said
For want of splitting
Their faces
And odd buttons
For every eye
Sometimes one
Sometimes three
To excuse
The double-vision
Of all the others
Some shiny
Some dull
To stop anyone th...

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And we pour 
Our souls
From shrunken lives 
Withering vessels
Pretending
To hold 
Heads high
And salute 
Whilst the hard earned
Salt
Drips from
Our skin
Our eyes
Until we turn it
Into silver and gold
And some of us
Moan
About working 
And some of us
Grumble about the 
Pressure
Of not working
And all of us 
Struggle
With getting
So many things
Wrong
Bleeding back
Into th...

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Most of us
We try
To scratch out
A living
With our broken bics
Blood and ink
Dripping meanly 
In a vague attempt 
To trace the idea 
Of a future
From somewhere 
Deep inside
And paint it 
Against the world
With its cruel way 
Of crumbling dreams 
Just before 
We reach them
Or wake up 
Or both

And we struggle so
To make sense 
Of this endless 
Nightmare 
Envying the wings
...

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Think about
This fountain
It is water
From the sand
It is the movement
Of the moon
It crashes 
In waves
It breaks
And it falls
And it moves
You
And within you
Whether
You like it
Or not
We are water
We are sand
And we can 
Build castles
And if 
You think of
One thing
Before you sleep
Remember 
The ever changing
Of the desert
And think 
On it 
A while
Those dunes
Have...

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When the fire
Has burned
And the ice
Has melted
What sits 
In your soul
What makes the 
World go round 
Who are you giving
The chance
To work 
Their way back
These cogs
Need oil
These spokes
Need constant
Repair
The bitterness
That rests
Deep within 
Is only a mirror
Of your outlook
Honesty comes cheap
Happiness is a hat
You can wear 
Or crease 
These battles
Aren't batt...

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I think 
That's the beauty 
Of life 
Everyone
Is fluctuating
On harmonies
Sometimes
It's the right
Note
Sometimes
It's the right 
Key
And sometimes
It's not
And pleasure
Is pleasure
Not a chore
And though
We might screw
This up
And we might lose 
It now and then
It all comes back
And we nail it
Long or short
And that's just 
The way
It has to
Be

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And out of the 
Wind
Come the 
Waves 
And out of sight
Comes the mind
What I'm trying
To say is
These things
Happen
These things
Surround us
This world
Is full
Of life
And you can spend
All your money
On a horse
That didn't run
Or rain
That didn't 
Fall
Or you can 
Look
At everything
Around you
And walk
Steadily
Along the
Shaking
Earth
And as long 
As your feet
Don...

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Some of us
We'll drink
Til the cows 
Come home
Some of us 
We'll crawl
Til we get home
Some of us
We'll bay to
The moon
Until the salt
Burns
Our cheeks 
And some of us
We'll look
At the stars
Waiting 
For them
To fall
But you know
The truth
Like I do
Some of us
Is all of us
And we might not
Know much
But we do it
The best way
We can
And those animals
These sheep
All ...

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These human animals
They're dirty things
They chew the scraps
Fill their boots
Spill the beans
Minds elsewhere
Thoughts anywhere
But matching
Ignorant breeding 
Ignorance
Feeding the view
They have
They see
Of this place 
Governed
By a man
In the sky 
And excused
Because 
The desire 
To read the stars
Outweighs
The sense 
To see 
The stars
Without 
Making lizard like judg...

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And she stood there
With her face 
Pointed to the wind
Nose twisted
Twitching
Ready
For the signals
She didn't even know
Were being
Sent
And her hunched shoulders
Were forced to face
The ground
Which she only ever
Saw as 
Dust and dread
And I wondered 
Where the witch
Was
Or had gone
Where the curse
Had come from
Where the withered life
Which had wrecked 
Her soul
Before s...

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He chewed on
The fat
Though in these
Lean times
There was little 
On his plate
But bones 
And he chewed 
On his thoughts
Though the nights 
Had been long and dry
So his ideas 
Were sparse 
He chewed on his jaw
And ground his
Boot into
The dirt
Looking hopelessly
At the sky
As though the clouds
Might make a picture
Of the answer
Even though
For most of the time
The question 
...

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You want me
To search
My soul
Honey
I spent my life
So far 
Doing that
You want me
To know
Which way is up
All I learnt 
Is that kind of search
Brought me down
You think
I don't want 
To dance 
With you
Take those steps
Baby 
Those steps 
I learnt from the womb
But 
You know
That heartbeat
I've not found
Since I smelt
The air and
These roses
They don't smell
So fresh
...

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It's not going
To play 
This way
See
Take off
Your blinkers
These horses
They're good for
Running
Riding
Working
But they aren't 
The people
On this funny farm
And the cattle
They have 
Their eyes
Wide
And they look
Forwards 
Because only owls
Can look behind them
And I guess
There's a reason 
For that 
Forget about
The whispers
And the ticks
And the barflies
And the b...

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You can take
A bit of my sky
You can hold
My thunder
Underneath
Your world
You can rattle
The bars
Of the machine
And plump
Your pillows
To feather 
The lies 
You walk upon
You can take
The lightening
From the lack
Of forgiveness 
In my eyes
And breathe life
Into the rats
That you frown 
Upon
With such 
Disdain
But to survive 
And remove yourself
From 
The pedestal
...

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And tomorrow 
We shall crawl
Into the belly
Of the big
Metal
Bird
And she will have her
Way
Night will be day
And day will be night
And none of it will be 
True or false
Right or wrong
We will strap ourselves 
In
Whether we like it
Or not
Our heads will roll
And jerk
And nod 
Like the hundreds of 
Other shadows
Joining us
In front and
Behind
And we will 
Wrap ourselves 
...

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There's a tv screen
On a train
Playing endless 
Black and white movies
No sound
The silent type
Of a man 
Or a woman
Or both
Running at slightly
The wrong speed
Sometimes colliding
Sometimes missing
Always carrying
A certain look 
Of lost helplessness
Occasionally
A sentence
Flickers 
On the screen
And I'm never sure
Whether the message
Is for me
Or for them
Or for the othe...

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There is a clock
On your shoulder
And its tiny hands
And invisible pendulum
Beat the life
Out of you
Minute by minute
Hour by hour
The bugs and flies
Scatter 
Like dust 
In artificial breeze
Yet time limps
On
As eyelids flicker
To fight 
The inevitable 
There is no flight
From here
There is no-one 
With whom to form 
A flock
And as much as 
You'd like to
The pause button
I...

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I mean
What did you
Expect from me
Huh
Let's both pretend
The answer 
Isn't 
Nothing 
A house in
The country
Two point four 
And a four by four
A nice life
And no
Questions
A patch in
The garden
To grow things
A place in the 
Sun
To wilt
I mean
Come on now
You're no better off
Than me
Your place is
No greater
Than mine 
Is this how
You saw yourself
Through
The sleepy...

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They take their tablets
Everywhere
This crowd  
Of electronic 
Pill poppers
Naked without 
Their portable window
Swallowing nothing
Around them
And everything 
Brought to them
Through their digital screen
Locked in
Strung out
Hooked all the same
A demented generation
Connected by invisible 
Wires
Trawling towns and cities
Airports and motorways
Countryside and forest 
Robotica...

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You made a man
Though 
You knew 
And didn't know 
What you 
Were doing
And you 
Probably 
Got it right
For all the wrong 
And here I am
Standing
Breathing
A multitude 
Of all your lessons
You made
A shouter
A growler
A fighter
And you gave life
To
Another sensitive soul
And for all
I never said it
I'm eternally 
Grateful
Because 
You 
Gave me 
The words
And the heart
...

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You think 
You got it
Teacher man
With your pay cheque
In the holidays 
And the wine 
Running 
Through your veins
With mr government
On your back
Measuring your 
Achievement
Your success
Your sense of attainment
Those little boxes
You build 
Out of people
You build them
Better
You make them 
Brighter
Whilst society 
Claws at your eyes
No longer 
Hides their whispers 
Of di...

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What's the matter
She asks
Only the weight of
The world 
My love
The things 
We could be
And the things
We can
Never be
The lions
And the monkeys
The jungles 
And the cities
The places
And the people
The mountains
In the sky
The tramps 
And the vagabonds
The millionaires
And the paupers
The earth
And its axis
And can you 
Change that
Can you mend it
For me
Did you ever ...

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We're all
Passengers 
Sleeping 
On the sliver 
Of the storm
The lunacy of 
This moon is
Wasted on
The insipid
Fallen generations
Forever trudging 
Sunset 
Dancing on ice
With grace and 
Duress
Bewitched by history
Unlearning lessons 
Muddying tracks 
With pieces of eight
And tears of 
Misfortune
Making the dogs
Howl 

Lady Dementia 
Spreads her icy fingers
Warning all o...

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And it wasn't 
Your wings
That made me
Wonder
Or the strange way
You held 
Your hands
It was your 
Eyes
Staring
At odd angles
Almost as if 
You didn't know
Which way 
To look
First
And I wonder
Whether
That was a slip
Of the artist's
Hand
Or whether 
It was something 
Else
After all
If you were 
Sent down
And if there
Was
An up 
Maybe that's 
The way 
You have to 
...

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What happens 
When you become 
Too old to pretend 
That you are 
Tarzan 
And
When you look
Into the mirror
It is
Your father's face
Staring back 
Whilst your grandfathers 
Look over 
His shoulder 

We all know 
This world spins
Though we can't see it
We all know time moves
Though we can't
Always 
Feel it
And then 
Sometimes 
There is 
A jolt
And everything 
Is throw...

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So we were driving through. Flashes of countryside and monotony. And these little places pop up now and then as they do. Over the brow of a hill, from nothing there are suddenly colours and smells and sounds and life. 

And then they came in swarms. 
And he was sleeping in the back of our transporter, as was his want. And they stared and smiled and danced around the vehicle. They banged their d...

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Sometimes there are 
Things
You think but 
should not say
(Right?)
But it doesn't mean
You shouldn't 
Think them 
And yet 
That you think them
At all
Is a thought worth 
Studying 
Though I suppose
You can't control
The things
That pop 
Into your head
Whereas you can
Control 
The things that
Fall from your 
Mouth
And though this seems
Like a minor
Even petty 
Difference 
...

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There's nothing wrong
With me 
He said
I'm just enjoying 
The view
That man is
Swinging 
Not hanging 
He said
And I feel the pain 
And suffering 
Of the whole world
There is no bother
Here though
He said
No more than 
Any place else
And the more you 
Fight 
The more you lose
He said
Keep the beat
Or skip it
It's all the same 
To me
No one is going any place
Any sooner 
T...

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And people talk
Without thoughts
Remember with fondness
Things that 
Never
Happened 
Relationships that 
Never
Were
Draw pictures of their 
Past
Which never existed
Even though now
They believe they 
Did
And why
To make themselves
Feel better
To make themselves 
Feel real
To make sense
Of the things 
They can make no sense
Of
Maybe it makes
Their life 
Worthwhile
Maybe i...

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I sit here 
Watching 
Old stars
On new screens
And I come to 
Wonder
What does it take
These days 
To shake the people
Out of 
Their rocking chairs
Their lazy boys
Because they all
Knew
Like I did
And they will know
Like we do
And still
They choose
A remote control
Life
With an electronic
Chair
And a TV
With all the 
Interaction
And no interaction
And they walk the stree...

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You know
It's these times
I get thinking
About the sheep
And the shepherds 
And I can't tell
Who is more reliant
On whom
So they guide
And they're led
And if they don't guide
They die
And if they're not
Led
They die
And the little dogs
Yip yap
Their way
Through it all
Oblivious to anything
Other than
An intricate sense
Of what they have
To do
And a bowl of 
Food
At the en...

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Today I feel
My age and not
My shoe size
My thermostat is broken
And my temperature
Is going through the roof
An angry man
Is beating his little drum
Constantly
Somewhere above my
Left eye
And the sweat
Will not stop
Betraying the last chance
Of any secrecy
I could hope to have
Of the night before
I haven't crashed
I'm not broken
But I'm as close as
I could be
Without falling ...

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It's a morning of
Infinite possibilities 
And everything 
Might change
Showers heavy
Thunder likely
Time to cut away
This knee high rough
Heads are in the valley
Waiting to
Break the news
Afraid of losing
Their ground
Habits are shaped
Dependency and addiction
Form
And the lady of sunlight 
Crashes through
The clouds
Shaking her golden locks
And spilling them 
Across the sky
...

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This thing they call
The future
Happened 
Yesterday
This thing they call
The past
Will happen 
Tomorrow
There are so many
Names for things
And so many drawers
And cupboards
There are chalk lines
On the floor
Waiting to be
Drawn
Waiting to be washed
In the rain
Whilst the skeletons 
Dance in 
The thunder 
And the water babies
Drown in the puddles
This mirror 
Ripples
In the...

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Sometimes
It's nice 
To be nowhere
No rush 
In getting 
Anywhere
Walk the streets
Feel the 
Cobbles
Watch the world
Turning around you
Whilst no one
Knows
Maybe they care
Maybe they don't
And my feet
Move
My heart 
It beats
And thoughts
Drip only
As you 
See them 
Now 
Nothing to think
Of
Nowhere to 
Go
The dusk
And a dirty 
Bus
All falling
In front
And 
Behind
T...

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All in all
Things work out
It seems to me
That this is just
What they do
So you can
If you choose
Worry about
This way
And that path
This person
And that monster
You can lose sleep
Over tonight
Or tomorrow
Or today
Or the things
That have already
Happened
Or you can
Simply
Let them happen

An old man once
Said to me
Let be
Be
And though
I understood the words
I didn't ...

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You want to know
A story
It begins
Once upon a time
And took place
A long time ago
And it was about
A little boy
And a little girl
Maybe they were brother
And sister
And this happened
And that happened
And there was probably
A witch
And a wise old man
And a step parent
Of one sort
Or another
And magic was
Present
Because that's how
Stories
Go
And the worms wriggled
And the...

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I crumple the
Notes
Because
I think
That's the best
Thing
To do
With worthless
Paper
It measures
Nothing
But ink
That has no matter
And it comes
And it goes
And it always
Will
If you
Try hard enough

There's always
A bar
There's always
A beggar
And there's always
Me
and I'm
Never
Quite sure
What it is
That
I'm pleading
For

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I never 
Check my change
Because 
At the end of
The day
How much change
Is going to 
Happen
Without my
Knowledge
Without 
My control
Without it happening
Anyway 
Regardless 
The silver and gold
Left in
Your pocket
At the end
Of the day
At the end of the
Night
Will or won't 
Be there
At the end of
It all
Whatever is left
Is left
And there isn't 
Any point
In crying
Ab...

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Today 
I met my own 
mortality
For the first time 
And she didn't look
In the slightest bit
How I expected 
To be quite honest
She had no 
Distinguishing features
At all
Blended right in
With the motorway
And the traffic 
The road kill
And the crash barriers
On reflection 
It's possible she 
Wore a knowing look
The one that says
It happens to us all
What makes you think
You'r...

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Draw a map

Trace those lines

With care

And with caution

Shade them

With anger

Remember

You have been

Here

Before

You will be

Here

Again

You can scratch out

Crooked little cobwebs

Wherever you go

And when

You look

Back

If you are able

Or when you look

Forward

And pretend

You came from

Nothing

Then

You can choose

If you...

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And the thing
About clowns
And their mystery within
All the like
And dislike
And the fear
And delight
The disguise and deception
The obsession and performance
Of the circus
That is people
When the curtain falls
And the make up's
Removed
The shadows peel back
To reveal
Us
Staring out
From our
Badly lit mirrors
With our watery smiles
And our hapless eyes
And our costumes
In pi...

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Today I discovered
A heart
made from
An elastic band
Someone had tied
A knot in the top
And a knot in the bottom
And twisted it
If I toyed with it
Too much
It lost it's
Shape
It was stretchy
But I knew
If I stretched it
Too far
It would snap
I could feel the tension
Between my fingers
So
I stole that heart
And now it sits
On my desk
Staring
And I wonder
If it will be
Noti...

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And sometimes
Things transpire
They gather together
In secretive groups
And offer you a
Hand
In the shape of
A fist
From within their
Shadows
They punch you
Hard
And square
And fair
And shake your senses
Out of themselves
And back into
Reality
And for a moment
You see things
As they are
And you are both
Detached
And reattached
To this sham of
A life
It doesn't take long
...

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I've done this all

Before

You know

And I want

To pour out my words

But my words

Are just the

Same

The feelings

Are just the

Same

Nothing changes

As much

As everything

Seems different

And I suppose

It will be the same

The next time

And the next

But this time

More than any other

I tried everything

And it still

Wasn't enough

And ...

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Find the calm
Filter the pressure
Take the pace 
Down a level
These things
They don't have
To run at 
A hundred miles
An hour
The world
Will still be there
Tomorrow
As will most
Of the people
Let your mind
Heal
Let your head
Rest
There are too many
Things
To worry about
Over which
You have 
No control
Whether this happens 
Or that
Today 
Or tomorrow
Is both in
Your han...

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I know
The mechanics
Of this world
And they are
Ruthless
Robotical
These things
We have learnt
To call 
Feelings
Go unnoticed
The machine 
Rumbles on
Always
Forever
There is always
A spanner 
Some oil
To make sure
That the cogs
Keep on turning
Because 
They always will
Wether you
Stand up
Fall down
Dream
Or don't 
This world ticks on
And always will
And the dead
They...

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Let's undo the
Hinges
Let's see what lies
Deep inside
Unscrew the brackets
Open the cupboard
Punch holes 
In the side
Of our heads
Suffer the pain
That lies
On the other side
Of what we know
Tread in the place
Where the doors have
Been closed
For so long
Tread the dust
Tempt the mania
Scare ourselves 
A little
I do know
What's inside
I know 
The slugs 
And the cobwebs
I k...

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Remember the man
Who turned to god
Because he sold drugs
Badly
Got beaten up
Badly
Got in
Over his head
And prayed
Sat in a car
Got taken
For a ride
Cried
And then
Another man
A bigger man
Maybe the big man
Personified
Stepped out of his
Own car
Leaned into the window
Said
I know
Your problems
I know your
Enemy
I know their enemy
And it's not
Your fault
And the smaller...

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And I suppose
What it comes
Down to
Is ordinary patience

With irrationality 
And impossibility
There is no fight
To be had
There is no 
Point
In impatience
For the argument is not 
Between two
But between 
One
And to heavily 
Coil the spring
Against impossibility
Is a waste
Of everyone's time
Especially your 
Own
So roll a cigarette 
Open a beer
Read a good book
Let the ...

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At night
She took out
Her eyes
Took out 
Her ears
Took out 
Her teeth
Regressed
Into that 
Alien 
Embryonic state 
And prepared to fill
Her tired tortured mind
With another state
Of dream and horror
And inner daemons
And miserable excuses
That justified
Her miserable life
She gasped and moaned
And sweated and turned
Turmoil within
And turmoil without
Until she shook herself
...

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It's too hot
To sleep
Yet we long
For these days
Of discomfort 
When all we want 
Is to wallow and bask
To sit in the sun
Let the day 
Drip slowly by
Smile at the sky
Listen to the birds
Watch the busy people
Buzzing about their 
Days
Trapped in their little boxes
Running their little 
Machines 
Sweating out
Their busy-ness
And their business
As though it were
The most import...

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The sun is shining
This day is
Going to be
Good
Put your sun glasses on
And calm
The fuck down
Don't chase the
Shadows
The angels and the devils
Will all come to you
However poorly
You manage
Your impatience
Smoke a little
Drink a little
Squat
Squint and smile
This pain is
Only temporary
However long
You try to prolong it
The caution
Signs are plain
To see
It’s that time o...

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All your socks
Are on their own
And there's a party
On the 
Window sill
The sky has
Fallen down
Though the moon
And its light
Creeps through
And I hug myself
To sleep
To wake
Wondering
Always wondering
As I wander
Through the desert
Of broken
Empty bones
Calling the flies
Away from the 
Bar
Queuing endlessly
In a rush
To get where
I'm going
Before I've been 
Anywhere

...

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Some say

She left the tap

Running

Because she was

Hurtling

Head first

Into a tumble of

 Life

Some say she did it

To drown out the sound

Of all her ideas

As they spilled

From her pores

And dripped as tears

Forming puddles

Of what might be

Others say she did it

Because

Of the worry

And the strain

And very pain

Of a troubled

...

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Sometimes
It's interesting
At these things
Watching the sweat
Pour from
The ceiling
Fill the floor
As sound floods
Your ears
Like every other
Pulsating vibrating sound
Produced in this
Artificial sauna and hot tub
Of supposed
Enjoyment
Some people
With no affinity
To me
On a stage
With no affinity
To them
Sweat in unison
Trapped in a sticky soup
Without our
Jungle
But amon...

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Once
I had a leaking bucket
In which I collected
My time
And I looked
Occasionally
At all the broken
Seconds
And fractured minutes
Wondered if there was
A glue
With which
I could piece it
All
Back together
Wondered if
It was worth it
I thought about
All the lost
Time
And why I'd bothered
To catch its
Fragments
In a piece of
Plastic
A man made object
For a man made thing
...

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These people
With their
Lives
And their 
Costumes
And their pretend
Sense of being
I've seen
Your mirrors
I've seen
Your wasted
Makeup
I've seen 
Your dressing up box
And your voice
That means nothing
And the sounds
That you bark
Are the words
That you pretend
To bleed
None of this is
Me
None of these
Borrowed clothes
Mean anything 
I see you
I hear your noise
Echo
Int...

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You know
You see people 
Stand
You see them 
Fall
You see them 
Staggering
In this way
And that 
Wandering and wobbling
Trying to find
Their way home
And they walk 
With a blinkered
Stare
Not knowing 
Which way is up
So they try 
The ski slopes
The bunji jumps
Turn themselves
Inside and out
Play at dizzy
Play at the Waltzers 
And they spin
The cars
Or the cards
And wonde...

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Some people 
Are monsters
Dressed as sheep
And some people 
Are sheep 
Dressed as monsters
And somewhere
Amidst the chaos
Are the animals
Dressed 
As people
Who have forgotten
How to bleat
Who have forgotten
Where they 
Came from
Who wander
Lost and lonely
Waiting
In the shadows
Between the rain
And the sunlight
For a time
When they can 
Shine
Without 
Ever
Being
Notice...

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It seems to me 
that you have 
Inside your head 
A picture of how 
you think life 
should look 
and you spend 
so much time 
studying 
and staring 
and worrying 
about that pretend picture 
that you forget
Or just don't see 
how life actually looks
There is no problem
With having
Ideas about things
Having aims
And ambitions
And desires
But when these things
Shape the world 
...

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Words are not sums
There is no formula
No way of adding
All of this up
To equal
An answer
Just a man
And his cat
And some books
With half digested thoughts
And partly permeated ideas
Underlinings and crossings out
Sections ignored and
Whole passages
Stowed away
For later
There's a bottle
Of wine
Half started
Half finished
And
The final pieces
Of the puzzle
Heavy eyelids
Mou...

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And there she stood
Beneath the wind
An animal dressed
In the suit of
A woman
Or was it a man
Or a woman dressed
As a man
Or an animal dressed
As a woman
And her tail
Twitched
And her instincts
Flickered
As she followed
The trail of
Breadcrumbs
Maybe she noticed
 the picnic basket
And the hood
Made of red
The axe
And the wolf's tail
The teeth
Maybe of a lady
Older than she
...

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Nobody must talk
To you
For eight years
He said
And there had been
No other words
Than the rattle of snores
And the clackety clack
Of the sleeper train
And then
He got up
And got off
And was gone
And maybe
There was a hand shake
No profanities
And unfortunately
No more words
Of wisdom
In his tongue
Or anyone else's
And I was left
There
Amongst the flickering
Candles
And th...

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Sometimes
My eyes
Bleed
Just at the moment
Before my head
Explodes
You all know
that Moment
That
Feeling
And
There is no blood
There are
No tears
And still
The red stuff
That seeps
Through my pores
Should tell
Both me
And you
Everything
We need to know
So I sit
In a puddle
Of red
And I wonder
Where it all
Came from
And why
I didn't realise
Before
It happened

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Out of the blue
They came
And by the blue
I mean the grey blue
The colour between
Colours
The sound between
The noise
And they crawled
With newly formed
Limbs
And wet gills
Still adapting
To the lack of
Oxygen
Left to breathe

They came
Brushing themselves
down
Dusting themselves
off
Waiting for the
Opportunity
To steal
Whilst all of you
Were
Sleeping

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And it's these times
between the rain
When maybe
I wonder the most
There's no storm
But there might be
There's no harm
But there might be
There's no anything
But everything
That surrounds me
And I can smell
The lakes
And the trees
I can hear
The birds sing
And the caterpillars crawl
Yet
in the back
Of my mind
All I can feel
Is the
Concrete
And my mind
Sweeps
To these jungl...

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It's the last place
To catch
The sun
Amongst this madness
This noise
This crazy time
Where sound
And volume
And the last one
Standing
Cry their tears
Into the rain
I feel
Your heart beat
Hear
Your soul
And wonder
Why you sit
At a table
Surrounded
By crumbs
And the echoes
Of laughter
By which
Once
You shaped
Your
Life
 

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You know
You gotta watch out
For
These lessons
They fly about
Absentmindedly
Watching you
Watching the world
Go by
And what you
Gotta realise is
They aren't there
For nothing
You can
Wrap yourself up
In your
Little blanket
You can close your
Eyes
And not see
The warmth
But if you
Don't smell
The chances
The faces
The things
You need to see
As they slip on
By
You might ...

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I don't think this mess
Was ever meant
To be tidied
I don't think the sheep
Dressed up in wolf-skin
Were ever meant to make
The grade
Out amongst the barnacles
Staring out to sea
We were designed
Loosely
And with plausibility
But we were never
Meant to be
And now that we are
And now that we have
And now that we can
We bob worthlessly
Somewhere between
Life and death
And scratch...

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The morals are immoral
In this age
Of see monkey do
And the poodles
Who perform
Their tricks
On stage
On pillars
On platforms
On posts
Have waxed
Their eyelashes
And learnt
Once more
To prance on
All fours
In outright disagreement
To the waning
Soul
And its idea
Of heavenly suggestion

The fire-eaters
They rub their hands
Toasting on
Their crumbling thrones
And wait for t...

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I wrote a letter
Once
It was full of endings
And beginnings
But it had no
Balls
There was nothing
In the middle
If you know
What I mean
All bread and
No sandwich
Garbage
And it was sometime
Around then
As I had my
Wax stamp
Poised
That I realised
I got here a long time
Before you
I knew so much more
Than you
And more than likely
I was going
To get off
Before you
And I su...

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What If

There was a clock

Which told

The real time

A time piece

Governed not

By the artificial

Tick

Or the mechanical

Tock

But ruled

Only

By the rhythm

And emotions

of

The beating heart

A watch

That watched

And when things

Went slow

Their passage

would be monitored

And measured

In real terms

Sensitive to

Feelings

Not cap...

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You think this
Is a revolution
You think
You see a point
That should be
Made
You think
You can
Shake
And
Break
The world
But you
Are trapped
My friend
Within the circles
And cycles
And gyres
Of what you are
For to make a
Change
Really
To make
A
Difference
Is a big
Thing
And a slow
Process
And
Most of the time
It happens
Before you even
Noticed
 

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Cobwebs
Maybe we need
to talk about
cobwebs
You know
they fill the
empty spaces
They gather an
enigmatic shine
They shimmer
They tickle our
inner darkness
Bring forward our
fears
We brush them away

Absentmindedly
with purpose
They form the most
natural of
curtains
between so many things
The here and now
The horror and
the fear
The things that
scare us
Which aren't so
f...

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See
I've been walking
This last week
With a stone
In my shoe
So much so
I've affected a limp
Maybe it's
The chip
I forgot to carry
On my shoulder
Maybe I kept it
There
To remind me
I am alive
Maybe I kept it
Uncomfortably in my
Sock
Because it stopped
Me worrying
About my suffering
Maybe I wanted to
Hold part of the streets
With me
To remind me
That that's where
I come fr...

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I thought I'd lost
My hat
And though I hadn't
For people like me
That's quite a thing
For that hat
Had been places
That hat carried
Part of me
And part of me
Lived within that hat
So you can imagine
The panic
When my hat
Wasn't where
It was supposed to be
And at that point
I knew
The kind of day
I was going to have
And so
I braced myself
Collected my thoughts
Though I had to...

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They turned us
Into dogs
You know
And we didn't
Even realise
They surrounded our
Buildings
With cages and pens
And put big gorillas
With keys
On the gates
To march us
In and out
They put collars
Around our necks
With our names
On
And even a picture
In case we got lost
Or forgot
Who we were
They made us
Go walkies
For at least
Half an hour
Everyday
And told us
It was good
...

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~~Play dot to dot
On your skin
Match up the lines
Of who you're
Supposed to be
Who you were
Join your freckles
Your scars
Your lines
Of dishonesty
And for once
In your life
Don't pretend

Every once
In a while
You read a line
On a page
And the words sing
For all writing
Is meant to be
Heard
And the sound
flattens
The edges
Softens
The corners
And puts you
In a place
Wa...

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And as I crawl
Steadily
Backwards
I start to wonder
Will my hands shake
Before
My brain
Does my mind
Wobble
Already
Did it always
When will I quake
And it have nothing
To do with
Fear
When will the tremors
Of life
Finally
Take their grip
Stop me bending down
Stop me
Standing up
Stop me being who
I am
And turn me into
Who I will always be
Before I rot
In the ground
Which...

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This morning
Every light was
Red
No matter how hard
I stamped my foot
Or how softly
I pressed my toe
The lights
Wouldn't change
My mind crawled
My thoughts raced
But there was no
Flashing of amber
And maybe from this
I should learn
That today
I should give up
On hope
And dig in
Get my nails dirty
Cut my teeth
For tomorrow
The orange might rise
Once more
And in the distance
...

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So
Let's raise our glasses
To the
Smiling assassins
They have no rhyme
No soul
No reason
Hell bent on
Directionless direction
I'll tip my hat
Because
Behind my smiling
Eyes
I'll kill them
All
Oh I can
Play those games
Too
Better
Harder
Meaner
Except I won't assassinate
Them
They'll  know when
I smile
That everything
They thought
Or did
Or pretend they
Were
Was a rope
...

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I collect the rage

In a black hole

Stored in a pit

In a place

Where part of my

Heart

Used to be

It turned to stone

Long ago

And at some point

Some of it

Fell away

Collapsed

Leaving a dark abyss

Of wrath

For most of the time

I keep this dark shadow

Hidden

Starved of light

Of freedom

Of fuel

But it doesn't die

It will never

Die

...

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~~Some people
Tend to do
A lot
Of loud
Unnecessary
Walking
I don't know
If it's the clomp
Of their shoes
The pomp of their
self importance
Or the constant
Hurry and rush
Of getting
Nowhere
Quickly
I hear them
Stamp stamp stamp
Up
And
Stamp stamp stamp
Down
All day long
And I wonder
What it says
About
The state of
The insides of
Their heads
And their pent up
Un-spent
...

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~~You know
Sometimes
You wonder
Who the crazy
One
Is
You hang pictures
On the wall
With spaces
For the small people
To fit in to
You talk to the cat
You drink some wine
Eat some food
Same shit
Different day
You read some
Bukowski
On the pot
Let him mess with
Your thoughts
A little
Wonder what
All the fuss
Is about
You run lists
Through your mind
Helps you sleep
Keeps yo...

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She kept a flower

Once

Maybe it was

The first flower

And she wrapped it

Up with her

Soul

And with tissue paper

And hid it 

Under her bed

For she knew

They would come

Looking for it

And they would never

Think

She would hide

Such a thing

There 

Much later

When tides had flowed

And the times 

had changed

A different woman

In the sam...

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Once I lost 

Half a battle

In half a war 

Won half a victory 

Took

Half the glory

Stood half 

My ground

Faced half the

People

Slept half 

A dream 

Lived half a 

Life

And wondered

Half the time

Why I bothered

At all

To fight half 

My bitterness

For half the things

I never wanted

In the

First place

For half a world

That I did...

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I thought I'd lost

My hat 

And though I hadn't

For people like me

That's quite a thing

For that hat 

Had been places

That hat carried

Part of me

And part of me

Lived within that hat

So you can imagine

The panic

When my hat 

Wasn't where 

It was supposed to be

And at that point

I knew

The kind of day

I was going to have

And so

I braced ...

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